eft and trauma

WHEN

DECEMBER 8-9, 2017

WHERE

TBD

COST

Early registration by October 28th
$350 for NYCEFT members/$380 non-NYCEFT members

Regular registration by November 27
395$ for NYCEFT members/$425 non-NYCEFT members

CE'S Available!

Target Audience:

Psychologists, Social Workers, MFT's, Counselors - All Levels

The focus of this two-day training in the application of EFT with trauma survivor couples, if to work to help the trauma survivor reach open-heartedly and the partner respond vulnerably. This training emphasizes three key features in working with emotional echoes: clinical assessment and identification of various personal and relationship factors that impact clinical decision-making, key EFT interventions central to working with emotion both intrapsychically and interpersonally, and the how of pacing intrapsychic and interpersonal work.

In this training, the importance of the clinician’s ability to monitor and respond to client’s moment-to- moment experiences, especially extreme states of numbing, will be highlighted. Participants will come away with the knowledge of how to work intrapsychically piece-by-piece with partners in order to work interpersonally to create healing between them. Participants will learn how to support the trauma survivor in cultivating courage to reach for comfort and protection (tension between fears and longings) and how to prepare partners to be responsive (an amazing privilege but also an extraordinary pressure for the partner of a trauma survivor). Participants learn how to stay in the process when clients become activated emotionally, a common outcome of trauma, and when, we, the clinicians, get triggered.

Through teaching, video presentation, and experiential learning, you’ll see how to use voice, reflection, and deepening interventions to help partners make contact, stay in contact in order to distill, and then share vulnerabilities with each other in order to break the familiar yet dreaded feeling of emotional isolation, a common result of enduring trauma.

Learning Objectives

This workshop is designed to help you:

Trace the impact of trauma from an attachment perspective.

Develop assessment skills for working with trauma survivor couples.

Describe the importance of therapeutic pacing in working with trauma survivor couples.

Relate how to work with trauma survivor couples using an EFT (Dr. Sue Johnson) approach.

Choose when to heighten and when to contain emotion in working with trauma survivor couples

Develop skills for how to heighten and how to contain emotion.

Practice how to facilitate bonding between partners using specific EFT interventions.

Develop skills aimed at facilitating trauma resolution, as well as bonding between partners.

December 8th

9:00am - 10:00am (60 min)

Impact of trauma from an attachment perspective.

10:00am - 10:45am (45 min)

Impact of trauma from an attachment perspective with attention to developmental factors.

10:45am - 11:05am (20 min)

Break

11:05am - 12:05pm (60 min)

Impact of trauma from an attachment perspective with regard to mental health assessment and intervention more generally.

12:05pm - 1:20pm (75 min)

Lunch

1:20pm - 2:20pm (60 min)

How to work with trauma with couples.

2:20pm - 3:20pm (60 min)

How to work with trauma with couples with attention heightening and/or containing emotion.

3:15pm - 3:35pm (20 min)

Break

3:35pm - 5:00pm (85 min)

How to work with trauma with couples, and working within the "therapeutic window" both individually and relationally.

December 9th

9:00am - 10:00am (60 min)

How to work with emotion "moment-to-moment" with the goal of facilitating bonding and trauma resolution.

10:00am - 10:45am (45 min)

Positively and durably shifting affect regulation capacities.

10:45am - 11:05am (20 min)

Break

11:05am - 12:05pm (60 min)

Positively and durably shifting models of self and other.

12:05pm - 1:20pm (75 min)

Lunch

1:20pm - 2:20pm (60 min)

Clinical assessment and identification of various personal and relationship factors that impact clinical decision-making.

2:20pm - 3:20pm (60 min)

Key EFT interventions central to working with emotion both intrapsychically and interpersonally.

3:15pm - 3:35pm (20 min)

Break

3:35pm - 5:00pm (85 min)

How to pace intrapsychic and interpersonal work.

presenters

KATHRYN RHEEM ED.D., LMFT

Dr. Kathryn Rheem, Director of the Washington Baltimore Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy (WBCEFT) for the last seven years, has trained hundreds of mental health clinicians in EFT nationally and internationally. She has been a student of EFT since 2002, has been using this empirically-validated approach exclusively in private practice since 2005, and continues to study and learn the model daily. Along with her mentor Dr. Sue Johnson, originator of EFT, Kathryn’s best teachers of this humanistic, attachment-based model are the couples she works with weekly in private practice. Together, Sue & Kathryn created Strong Bonds, Strong Couples, LLC, which provided EFT-based weekend retreats for Soldiers & Marines coming home from the wars Iraq and Afghanistan and their partners at military installations in the U.S. and abroad. Kathryn has trained U.S. Army Chaplains & European Regional Medical Command in EFT and consults monthly with the U.S. Veterans Administration. She works extensively with couples where one or both partners have endured trauma and has written and presented on the application of EFT with trauma numerous times. Kathryn was voted a Top Couples Therapist in Washington, D.C. by the Washingtonian magazine in December 2012. A clinical fellow and approved Supervisor of AAMFT, she has written nine articles/chapters on the application of EFT.

Leanne Campbell, Ph.D.

Dr. Campbell is co-director of the Vancouver Island Centre for EFT and Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group, and is an Honorary Research Associate of Vancouver Island University. Trained by Dr. Sue Johnson in the early 1990s, she has continued to focus on trauma, grief, and couple and family therapy since that time. In addition to teaching and training in these areas, and working with hundreds of couples and families over the years, she also specializes in providing psychological assessments, as well as psychotherapy and crisis intervention services to client populations including active military and veterans and their families, first responders, injured workers, and individuals who have suffered various types of developmental trauma.

This event is co-sponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars

Satisfactory Completion

Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.

NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0005. (12) clock hours.

Social Workers

R. Cassidy Seminars, ACE provider #1082, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for the program. Approval Period: April 15, 2015-April 15, 2018. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social workers participating in this course will receive 12 continuing education clock hours.

CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and ASWB for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers.

NJ Social Workers: This course is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards - ASWB NJ CE Course Approval Program Provider #31 Course #1567 from 09/20/2017 to 09/20/2019. Social workers will receive the following type and number of credit(s): Clinical Social Work Practice 12

NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider (#0006) of continuing education for licensed social workers. This program is approved for 12 contact hours live

OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (12) clock hours, #RCST110701

Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists

CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and ASWB for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers.

Other States: If your state is not specifically listed, nearly all state Counselor and MFT boards accept either APA or ASWB approval, or are reciprocal with other state licensing board approvals, such as those listed below. Check with your board to be sure. The Ohio Board includes Counselors and MFTs.

NY-LMHCs: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0015. (12) contact hours.

NY-LMFTs: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0011. (12) contact hours.

OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (12) clock hours, #RCST110701

NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0005. (12) contact hours

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.